Physician-Soldier: Death and Service in Warfare

Death is messy, death is complicated, death is urgent. This book is an attempt to understand the urgency of death through the lens of doctors in combat. This urgent summons is imprinted in the experiences of doctors deployed in times of combat and is all too familiar to Col. David Watson, MD, a psychiatrist and flight surgeon with over 30 years of military experience, as he recounted the day-to-day duties performed by medical teams in the Craig Joint Theater Hospital trauma bay in Bagram, Afghanistan. These field hospitals are imbued with medical personnel racing to save life amongst the chaos of war.As the casualties arrive for operation, medical teams run to get gowned, gloved, and prepped for surgery.